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Fisk Singers in Charlotte

From the Chicago Defender
31 Mar 1917

Raleigh, N.C., March 30 — The Fisk University Jubilee Singers, who appeared here Monday, were a treat. Nearly 500 whites attended. Mr. Hayes of the Fisk Jubilee Singers preached at the First Baptist Church Sunday.

Andrew Ward

The Mr. Haye was the great singer Roland Hayes who went on to a very distinguished career in opera and bell canto but always concluded his concerts with spirituals, which he could never sing without tears rolling down his cheeks.